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ID: 7013032
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013032
Record Type:
administrative
Edmonton (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 34 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.5667
decimal degrees
Long: 113 25 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -113.4167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on N Saskatchewan river; flourished as center for agricultural distribution and processing after arrival of Canadian Pacific Railway 1891; petroleum was discovered nearby at Leduc, Redwater and Pembina mid-20th century.
Names:
Edmonton
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Ft. Augustus
(
H
,
V
)
............
name of NW Company post constructed across river from Fort Edmonton, abandoned in 1810
Ft. Edmonton
(
H
,
V
)
............
fur-trading post for Hudson's Bay Company constructed 20 miles downstream from current site 1795; abandoned 1810
Strathcona
(
H
,
V
)
............
formerly located on river's S bank; absorbed into city 1912
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Alberta
(province) (
P
)
................
Edmonton
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
expanded in 19th cen.
city (
C
)
............
incorporated 1904
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since 1905
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Edmonton..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
4:371
.................
National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-564064
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
59
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Ft. Augustus..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 371
Ft. Edmonton..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 371
Strathcona..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 371
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 371; 4:371
..................
National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-564064
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
59
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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